Long before she wrote The Juggler’s Children, Carolyn Abraham was simply a kid who couldn’t tell her friends where her family came from: it took too long to explain. A child of colour, three continents, and, it seemed, too many countries to list, she would frequently ask...

Carolyn’s first book had little to do with the new developments in science. Instead, it was the culmination of a very old story. In 1999, she learned that the brain of Albert Einstein had been delivered to McMaster University for anatomical studies after rumbling over the...